KEY PROJECTS PABLO LAMBERTOS · SELECTED WORKS 2010/2013 WORK EXPERIENCE _ URBAN PERSPECTIVES | the CITIES | the KIDS | the RESEARCH | Valencia. Spain, since 2010 _ PLAN TERRITORIAL ESTRATÉGICO Área Centro-Sur de la Sierra Calderona Serra, Náquera, Olocau, Marines & Gátova , Valencia. Spain, 2013
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ACADEMIC PROJECTS _ BENIMAMENT LINE-PARK UPV, Valencia. Spain, 2012 _ INTERNAL BORDERS - EXTERNAL BORDERS ZWAH, Winterthur. Switzerland, 2010
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the cities The cities offers different ways of exploring cities. Either if you are a short time visitor or a local, either if you like to walk around on your own or with someone else, we can help you to look at the city from a different perspective, to see what is there. As Goethe once said: “The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes” FORMULAS Urban Perspectives is a small company run by a group of friends, architects-urban planners-explorers interested in learning about the built environment we live in. We organize seminars, walks and workshops for adults and children, and for ourselves. We research. We do it everywhere. In universities, schools, museums and galleries, in the streets of our cities and, of course, in our living rooms. We divided our activity in 4 areas of action: the cities, the kids, the sessions and the research. We are based in Berlin, Paris and Valencia but we run activities in other cities as well.
A. Meeting & Planning 1. Visitor contact us. 2. Reply a short questionnaire. 3. We study it. 4. We may give them some homework -but just if they wish to- 5. At the arrival we meet the people and help them to make the best of their time in the city. B. Exploring Exploring our cities is our biggest passion, but sometimes we need other people’s eyes to be able to remind us to look at what is right in front of us. In our explorations we show the city from our always changing perspective and we expect you to point out what we forgot C. Drawing cities Drawing cities is an exploration for locals and glocals. It is an interactive walk, the city appear to us while we draw it on its pavement and on its shop windows.
the kids At school we learn about the rivers, mountains and lakes but we do not normally learn about our built environment, although architecture is the background of our everyday life. The kids intends to fill this gap through a series of workshops that, while bringing closer our habitat to the smaller ones, will shape more participative citizens. TOPICS ................................. 1. The tools of the architect explores key concepts of architecture such as shape, function, material, light, scale, proportion or balance. ................................. 2. The dwelling explores the housing unit and its relation to other housing units and the environment. ................................. ................................. IMAGES the cities
·Drawing cities: Berlin ·Drawing cities: La Seu-Xerea ·Exploring. Valencia south-area. Natural and Human evolution ·Drawing cities. Joined at B_tour festival, Berlin ·Exploring. Joined at “la SeuMostra” event. Valencia ·Drawing cities: Valencia ·Exploring. Historical image from the “ethnobotanical route” resources. Valencia
3. The street as basic city unit from where to explore the square, the playground, the park, the city and our role as citizens. ................................. 4. Utopian cities dives into the imaginary worlds created by Yona Friedman, Archigram, Buckminster Fuller, or Le Corbusier, in order to understand history and plan new utopias. .................................
the research
the sessions
“The city is something more than a congeries of individual men and of social conveniences -streets, buildings, electric lights, tramways and telephones… The city is rather, a state of mind.”Robert Erza Park
The Sessions takes place once a week for one hour. Day, time and place varies often but we have been doing it, solidly, since October 2010.
Research is probably our main occupation, our inspiration and reflection, it is what, in first place, makes us, as individuals, converge into this collective. Our research tends to be active, open to participation and voices. We are not just interested in results but in processes, we like to share our work in progress, exchange technics, give and become feedback.
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·Modernism, learning from an old cinema façade ·Ardil Lakra ideal city ·Drawing and building the Valencia city process ·Modeling.Steal in the construction ·Modernism, learning from a house façade ·Drawing Japan to Tokyo ·Exploring Art-Decó architecture
We normally look into urban matters but we have been researching about other topics like intercultural communication or collective design processes. At the moment we are working on a graphic research project called “Atlas of the Abandonment” analysing the material and social abandonment in different case study cities. ................................. IMAGES the research
·Different graphics and diagrams from our project “Atlas of the Abandonment”, presented on Sint-Luca’s Conferences “(RE)-Claiming architecture”, Brussels, Belgium.
During these sessions we mainly work on presentations: -we train presentations, give and get feedback -we analyse different kinds of presentations -we built an open archive of tips and tools ................................. IMAGES the sessions ·Angel’s presentation ·Alfonso & Juampa’s presentation
“Plan territorial estratégico área centro-sur de la Sierra Calderona” Strategic Territorial Plan for Serra, Náquera, Olocau, Marines and Gátova - Sierra Calderona, Valencia, Spain From the Polytechnic University of Valencia , as academic and research institution in collaboration with the municipalities of Serra, Náquera, Olocau, Marines and Gátova, we drafted a Strategic Territorial Plan for those municipalities located at south-central area Natural Park of the Sierra Calderona, contributing from the environmental, cultural, economic, infrastructure, landscape and social perspective, to harmonized planning and sustainable development of that area. This document assumes the synergies and strengths that can be obtained from supra-municipal planning and provides practical and clear guidance, aimed at facilitating local planning decisions by municipal corporations and public participation. It also examines the possibilities that the area presents as a space for economic investment within a framework of sustainable development issue.
public participation plan Through public participation is intended to collect PTE Sierra Calderona expectations, needs and concerns of its resident population or visitor. With this objective, we develop and coordinate a participation plan divided into three phases that progressively activating and basically had to answer the following questions: >>what territory? >>What goals? >>What action? ................................. IMAGES the PTE Sierra-Calderona ·PTE final document. ·PTE area. ·Presentation included on the participation plan. ·Participation plan questionnaire ·Random analisis map of PTE
Many points of several strategies from the PTE are activated with that project, showing the transversality within the plan:
“La Prunera” Hostel
>> HERITAGE >> LOCAL ECONOMY >> NATURAL AND RURAL environment
Rehabilitation Project of the old hostel and its natural area, Serra, Valencia, Spain - Project included on the PTE Sierra Calderona
>> LIVESTOCK ENVIRONMENT
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AGRICULTURAL
>> TOURISM AND PUBLIC USE >> SUSTENTABILITY
SITE DESCRIPTION: Prunera is and 100-years-old building closed, that used to host “colonies de vacances” in the north part of the Sierra Calderona montains, between pines trees forest and close to a fountain. BRIEF GIVEN: To explore the possibilities of La Prunera offering alternatives to the summer holidays to keep the instalation opened 365 days.
MAP: Conflicts detected in the area of La Prunera. Most of them because of the abandonment state of the building, the acceses, and the old crops and terraces. la Prunera GR-10 pathway
THE AIM: To turn the building program into a hostal, keeping the holidays summer use, and attending to the sustentabilities indicators developed by the natural parc and the PTE proyect.
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playground terrace
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alojamientos accommodation
restauración gastronomy
servicios services
cultura culture
difusión dissemination guía
mountain road !"#$% %&' activities
formación educational formation
STRATEGY: >> Actions on the old building. Adapting the old building to the new uses with a new disftribution of the space, creating new rooms for new services. Projecting an energy and water resources sustentability plan, according to the natural park licences. Recuperate the vernacular appearance of the building, through the local materials and traditional construction systems based on the place and the environment.
>> Actions on the territory. Improving the accesses and the pathways, recuperating the old terraces and their tree crops, and bringing to the fountain area the old natural aspect, everything based on a traditional construction elements language. CONCLUSION: With this proposal, in a really cheap way, the new hostel would be selfsufficient for working on and get an aspect incorporated into the antropological values that the park represents. Also, with the inmediate environment actions the old prunus crops, the fountain, the play ground and the rest of the natural spaces, are ready for higher diversity in uses and visitor profiles.
Paseo de las Vías - Benimamet Linear Park
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Landscaping Architecture Project, with A. Ferández, J.M. Gómez at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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PLAN OF USES: In addition to the underground metro and urbanistic conditions, to have a successful project we developed a plan of uses. This plan is the result of small field research and citizen participation.
SITE DESCRIPTION: Benimamet is a small town divided by the train before. Today the train is underground and where the railway trak was there is a big urban empty space, full of uncertainties. BRIEF GIVEN: Improving connections between the two sides of the town, always divided and take the chance offered by this gap in the center of town. OUR AIM: To create a linear park connecting the two green big bags in the external borders and also, to develop it as a new central square for filling with social activity in a quality public space.
ANALYSIS: - Green areas fragmentation - Segregation - Compression - Noise - No place
IDEA: - Unificate green areas - Integration - Expansion - Rhythm - Identity and use
Systems: >>Flows_ cycling / pedestrian / car roads >>Activities_ new areas / old and reactivated areas >>Type of soil_ mediterranean meadow/ sand / forest >>type of vegetation_ dry-med./humid med/orchard/pines
STRATEGY: >>Improving accessibility to the new huge public area. Generating a map of routes for pedestrians and cyclists through parc keeping the speed reduction of private cars in the points crossing the walk. Becoming the old railway tracks into the new east-west axis of the village , on a human scale. >>Public use to activate the area. In response to social needs , some activity points are created , such as sports facilities and play areas, and adapted places for temporary events that allow to set activities in the space use areas. >>Selected vegetation for each section. The area can be divided into 5 major sections by their morphological characteristics that differ greatly from each other. That makes thinking each solution separately.
CONCLUSION: With this proposal, the barrier between the two parts of the village is transformed into a public space nexus. An adapted program uses desgin, a very specific morphology in each section and a detailed selection of plants adapted to the environment, designing reduce maintenance through use.
Zurich: internal borders - external borders
Zürichberg, Zürich 360 Ha surface 3’60 km distance to the city centre 3’00 km distance to the lake 11’80 km distance to the airport
Montjuic Park, Barcelona 400 Ha surface 4.5 km distance to the city centre 3.5 km distance to the sea 13.5 km distance to the airport
Summer workshop 2010, July 10-18, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Center for Urban Landscape, Winterthur, Switzerland
SITE DESCRIPTION: Susenberg is the upper western side of the hill Zürichberg, overlooking lake Zürich, in between woods and high-class dwellings. It is mainly occupied with family gardens.
BRIEF GIVEN: To explore the possibilities of Susenberg area offering alternatives to the exclusive housing developments.
OUR AIM: To create a quality public area >> FOREST as an alternative to the LAKE
DETAIL: intervention in the allotment gardens.
STRATEGY: >>Using ART Art in form ily gardens >>Improving
as a magnet for visitors and citizens. of giant sculptures, land art, in pavillions... in the famand in the woods. the accessibility, the public transport infrastructure.
CONCLUSION: With this proposal a new main public recreative area is created. We avoided the construction of new exclusive housing developments and we managed to keep the existing uses in the area, while upgrading its value because ART IS MONEY.
*This project was developed in team work with Lucía Martínez and Alfonso Fernández, students of ETSA Valencia. Tutors: Paula Cardells, Bruno Sauer (ETSA Valencia) + Christoph Luchsinger, Markus Tomaselli (TU Wien) + Max Bosshard, Stefan Kurath (ZH Winterthur ) + Tadej Glasar, Marusa Zorec (Fakulteta za arhitekturo Ljubljani ) + Dario Gabric, Ana Grgic (Gra evinsko-arhitektonski fakultet u Splitu) Winterthur 07/2010 - Duration: 1 week